A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

In their experiments, an antibiotic from the penicillin family called piperacillin cured mice of Lyme disease using a dose 100 times lower than the current treatment, the antibiotic doxycycline.

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon—a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not uncommon - a 2022 study found that 14% of patients who were diagnosed and treated early with antibiotic therapy would still develop ...

Flu-like symptoms in the days or weeks following the bite are also common, including fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, ...

Symptoms that persist long after Lyme disease is treated are not ... with antibiotic therapy would still develop Post Treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD). Yet doctors puzzle over the condition's causes ...

He has been studying Lyme disease for more than 15 years ... possibly for PTLD patients, and refined treatment options when antibiotics have failed. To effectively stymie PTLD, instead of ...